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Elfwreck · 02-22-2010, 03:32 PM

I read a lot of fanfiction.

A *lot* of fanfiction. As in, more than 150k words/week, most weeks. Sometimes as much as half a million words in a week, when I can find long stories in fandoms I like, or when I'm exploring a new fandom with a lot of pre-existing content.

I read scifi/fantasy, and am a solid Baen.com customer. I have a small collection of classics on my Sony, and have the delusion that someday I'll get around to reading them. (Just as soon as I run out of White Collar slash. Right.) I read a set of blogs, mostly at Livejournal & Dreamwidth, but not on my ebook reader; I want the comments as well as the posts, and none of the rss feed methods deal with comments. I read erotica, mostly m/m but not entirely; I've bought from Omnilit and Fictionwise. (And a handful of other sites.) I read pagan books, but very little is available as ebooks; I've bought a couple in paper and scanned & converted them myself because I no longer read paper if I can possibly avoid it. For leisure reading, I can always avoid it.

I'll try well-recommended books in almost any genre from Smashwords. I won't pay for DRM'd ebooks, and I'm leery of paying for anything that comes only in PDF format, because I'll almost certainly have to reformat it extensively before I can enjoy reading it.

02-22-2010, 03:32 PM	#3
Elfwreck Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,185 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)	I read a lot of fanfiction. A *lot* of fanfiction. As in, more than 150k words/week, most weeks. Sometimes as much as half a million words in a week, when I can find long stories in fandoms I like, or when I'm exploring a new fandom with a lot of pre-existing content. I read scifi/fantasy, and am a solid Baen.com customer. I have a small collection of classics on my Sony, and have the delusion that someday I'll get around to reading them. (Just as soon as I run out of White Collar slash. Right.) I read a set of blogs, mostly at Livejournal & Dreamwidth, but not on my ebook reader; I want the comments as well as the posts, and none of the rss feed methods deal with comments. I read erotica, mostly m/m but not entirely; I've bought from Omnilit and Fictionwise. (And a handful of other sites.) I read pagan books, but very little is available as ebooks; I've bought a couple in paper and scanned & converted them myself because I no longer read paper if I can possibly avoid it. For leisure reading, I can always avoid it. I'll try well-recommended books in almost any genre from Smashwords. I won't pay for DRM'd ebooks, and I'm leery of paying for anything that comes only in PDF format, because I'll almost certainly have to reformat it extensively before I can enjoy reading it.